BQP along with Quality Equipment are building a new Piggery
- Thread starter Piggy_jags
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Piggy_jags
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- Location
- Suffolk
July 30
jags water drinkers going in
recommend them for any growing pigs
first section of muck pud in
jags water drinkers going in
recommend them for any growing pigs
first section of muck pud in
caveman
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- Location
- East Sussex.
Yeah.
I'd spend £200 to keep a weaner pig as well.
Not.
Good luck with that.
I'd spend £200 to keep a weaner pig as well.
Not.
Good luck with that.
- Location
- Bedfordshire
I thought it was more like £180 @Piggy_jags ?
We'd like one, but we can't find a place for it. I've got a friend putting one up, he had no trouble borrowing the money, so the banks obviously think they're a good idea.
They seem to me like a very good system and a good thing to help get young people farming.
They end up with a decent shed at the end of it, a good wage for minimal work and they'll be able to work away from the farm of the farm can't sustain another wage.
We'd like one, but we can't find a place for it. I've got a friend putting one up, he had no trouble borrowing the money, so the banks obviously think they're a good idea.
They seem to me like a very good system and a good thing to help get young people farming.
They end up with a decent shed at the end of it, a good wage for minimal work and they'll be able to work away from the farm of the farm can't sustain another wage.
caveman
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- Location
- East Sussex.
Are there any significant electricity requirements to the set up other than just lighting?
How much water per day would a thousand near finished pigs consume in temperatures such as we have expierienced lately?
How much water per day would a thousand near finished pigs consume in temperatures such as we have expierienced lately?
caveman
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- Location
- East Sussex.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...Wa04CSfh3RGSKRGHA&sig2=JaLIO5Y5hhx6t5Ew5hAYNA
Probably more profit doing a few like this and selling all to family and friends.
Turnover is vanity.
Profit is sanity.
Probably more profit doing a few like this and selling all to family and friends.
Turnover is vanity.
Profit is sanity.
- Location
- Bedfordshire
caveman
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- Location
- East Sussex.
Ok.Yeh if you say so
So how much profit is there in throwing £200000 into a shed in which to raise a couple of batches of weaner pigs a year?
- Location
- Bedfordshire
- Location
- Bedfordshire
Another good reason.
Well, there is money in it. Certainly I can build for under £200 a place even with roadways and utilities, but doing a fair bit of the nuts and bolts myself. But yes, the chance to build a dwelling would motivate me the most.
Daniel
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- Location
- Mildenhall, Suffolk
If that log cabin is the dwelling I wouldn't want to live in it with the wind in the wrong direction, and you'll need some decent fly killers!
multi power
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- Location
- pembrokeshire
about 4 years to pay for that set up, but dont forget all the muck is valuable too
Daniel
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- Location
- Mildenhall, Suffolk
Be interested to see how you work that out?
caveman
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- Location
- East Sussex.
Ok.
Would that mean putting maybe 14 batches through and clearing £15k on each batch?
Where would one obtain a contract to garentee such a return?
Suffolk Serf
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- Location
- Bury/Thetford
To recap how the system works:
Farmer puts up (or converts) building, provides all necessary labour and straw and gets a fee and the muck.
Pig company (BQP isn't the only one) or indeed a pig farmer, provides and keeps ownership of the pigs, provides feed, veterinary care and management input and haulage in and out.
The farmer has a very low risk.
The pig company takes all the risk.
It can work well for both parties and is a very common arrangement.
- Location
- Gainsborough, Lincolnshire
^^^^^^^
This - most figures etc can be found in my diary thread.
Yes £200 a place sounds expensive - but not many things in agriculture will be repaid as quick!
